Police have detained a double of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin for swearing on Red Square, although he and his partner “Tsar Nicholas II” view this as extortion, reports said last Wednesday.
Sergei Solovyev, 53, has worked as Lenin for nearly a decade, charging tourists 100 rubles (NT$104) for pictures of himself dressed in a simple black suit and red tie.
His business partner Viktor Cherkasov, 55, impersonates Russia’s last tsar — the man Lenin had killed in 1918.
Photo: AFP
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Police detained Lenin when he and Nicholas II were having a simple conversation not far from the real Lenin’s mausoleum, said Cherkasov, who added they were wrongfully accused by a man who sells incense sticks nearby.
“All nine years, the police have been pressuring us. They want us to pay them and we refuse,” he said. “I gave money to an interior ministry charitable fund, but they told me to give them money directly.”
The man who poses as Lenin is now scheduled to attend a court hearing, although he has since been hospitalized after an episode of hypertension, according to the LifeNews Web site.
Lenin’s tomb on Red Square is regularly a subject of controversy, with many Russians arguing the mummified body should be buried. The capital’s main square near the Kremlin is one of the country’s biggest tourist attractions.
(AFP)
上週三的報導指出，警方已以在紅場上罵髒話為由，拘捕俄羅斯革命領袖弗拉吉米爾‧列寧的分身，但這位分身與其搭檔「沙皇尼古拉二世」認為此舉是勒索。
五十三歲的謝爾蓋‧索洛維約夫以扮裝成列寧為業至今長達近十年之久，他穿著簡單黑西裝與紅領帶供遊客拍照，並收取一百盧布（新台幣一百零四元）。
他的事業夥伴五十五歲的維克多‧契科索夫，扮裝成一九一八年被列寧殺害的俄國末代沙皇。
契科索夫說，警方在「列寧」與「尼古拉二世」當時正在距離列寧本尊陵墓不遠處進行簡單對話時，將「列寧」拘捕。他補充說，他們被一名在附近兜售香枝的男子不實控訴。
他說，「這九年來，警方不斷地對我們施壓。他們要我們付錢給他們，但我們拒絕。」他說，「我把錢交給內政部門的慈善基金，不過他們要我們把錢直接給他們。」
根據新聞網站LifeNews的報導，這位扮成列寧的男子雖然自事發後因高血壓發作而送院治療，他將會被安排參加一場法院公聽會。
列寧在紅場上的墳墓經常是個爭端，許多俄羅斯人民辯稱這個已製成木乃伊的遺體應該被埋葬。這個位於首都鄰近克里姆林宮的主要廣場，是該國最大的遊客旅遊景點之一。
（法新社╱翻譯：林亞蒂）
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